A newly-developed metal artifact reduction algorithm improves the visibility of oral cavity lesions on 320-MDCT volume scans

Physica Medica

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 66-71

  Funama, Yoshinori ^a   Taguchi, Katsuyuki ^b   Utsunomiya, Daisuke ^a   Oda, Seitaro ^a   Hirata, Kenichiro ^a   Yuki, Hideaki ^a   Kidoh, Masafumi ^a   Hatemura, Masahiro ^c   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

320 detector volume scanner; Artifacts; Oral cavity lesion; Single energy metal artifact reduction (SEMAR)

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; DENTAL MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MOUTH CAVITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; SIGNAL ARTIFACT RATIO; TOOTH CROWN; TOOTH PROSTHESIS; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOUTH; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DENTAL MATERIALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOUTH; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 84927601740     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2014.10.003     Document Type: Article

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